Utopia ---Thomas More

Utopia, with the subtitle On the best state of a republic and on the new island of Utopia (Latin: Dē optimō reī pūblicae statű dēque novā īnsulā Ūtopiā), is a 1516 book by Sir Saint Thomas More. The book, written in Latin, is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs.

1.It is the work of a scholarly and witty Englishman, who attacks in his own way the chief political and social evils of his time.
2.the proverb, “Show the sun with a lantern.”
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4.past the flower of his age;
5.Seneca
6.Cicero
7.He is a Portuguese by birth
8.was so desirous of seeing the world,
9.Americus Vesputius, Amerigo Vespucci, Italian Navigator and Astronomer
10.this disposition of mind had cost him dear,
11.insinuated
使逐漸而巧妙地取得;使迂迴地滲入[(+into)]
He tried to insinuate himself into the boss's favor.
他設法巧妙地漸漸取得老板的歡心。
含沙射影地說;暗示;暗指[(+to)][+(that)]
She insinuated to us that her partner had embezzled funds.
她旁敲側擊地指出她的合夥人盜用了資金。
13.loadstone天然磁石
14.digression離題;脫軌
15.For most princes apply themselves more to affairs of war than to the useful arts of peace; and in these I neither have any knowledge, nor do I much desire it; they are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms, right or wrong, than on governing well those they possess: